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Still Alive (The Song from Portal)

Posted by Jarrett on December 23rd, 2008

I made a cover of Still Alive about a year ago and put it on YouTube. It’s gotten over 150,000 views, which isn’t too shabby, I think. Here’s the original description:

So, here’s a little cover arrangement I made of “Still Alive”, the ending credits song from the excellent video game Portal.

The song was written by my personal hero, Jonathan Coulton. Explore his music. It’s wonderful.

I performed all nine tracks (on the keyboard), and I kept pretty close to the original arrangement.

The encoding on this movie is a much, much higher quality than the YouTube version.

Help yourself to the piano sheet music (PDF), or the mp3, or the MIDI file of this performance.

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16 Comments

Fantastic – thanks for sharing the sheet music and other goodies too!

^_^

BTW – you can really tell how much weight you’ve been dropping looking at last year to this year – keep up the good work!

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Comment by Liza LS on December 23rd, 2008

This sounds so much better than your version on YouTube!
And that one is great.
This one sounds just spectacular, it’s awesome!

Keep up the good work :D

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Comment by JET on December 30th, 2008

Great work… I love the arrangement.

Also, really appreciate you taking the time to do the sheet music. It is my new mission to learn… it may be a while, but if I get close, I’ll post it.

Have a great 2009!!

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Comment by Mike on January 3rd, 2009

I’d really like to see you do your own arrangement — one track, live. Your medley had some really original takes on the songs, and they sounded great.

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Comment by Lhyzz on January 19th, 2009

hay man, first of all you work is amazing!!! though when i tried to download the mp3 and midi files for your arrangement of “still alive” it wouldn’t let me :( any chance you could e-mail them too me??? I understand you must be a busy guy but it would be pure awesome if you could take the time to do that for me :) ) keep up the good work :)

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Comment by Bennay on September 11th, 2009

Wow! You have put a huge smile on my face! I put your MIDI into my Kawai, and it plays perfectly. And I can mute the piano track, so once I learn the notes from your score I’ll be able to play along. I’m so happy! Thank you!

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Comment by Jeranimal on October 9th, 2009

I play around with this song on my schools marimbas. Sounds very awesome! Thanks for the sheet music in a nice pdf too :) . Very Awesome

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Comment by Barrett50 on March 16th, 2010

THX!!!

I seriously love your arrangement, mostly that chorus!!! LOVE IT!!!!!

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Comment by 4lex on June 1st, 2010

you’re awesome ;)
trying to play this arrangement on my guitar right now, but at tact 24 it just gets to deep :(

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Comment by tehdog on September 15th, 2010

You play the piano so well!! Keep it up!!

Also, love Jonathan Coulton!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment by Fullmetal on October 27th, 2010

This is wonderful! You made a great song even better!

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Comment by John Ward on January 26th, 2011

Thank you so much for that! But the midi version isn’t the same as the piano sheet, is it?
Would be great if you could provide a midi version of the piano sheet, so people could learn it using synthesia :-)

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Comment by Michel Jung on May 8th, 2011

Great midi! I’ve been looking everywhere for one that sounds just like the actual song, and I just found it :D

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Comment by Joey on May 14th, 2011

Many Thanks for this, I used the midi in a cover version I done with the original vocals just for fun. I have credited you for the midi when people ask :)

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Comment by Leigh on September 2nd, 2011

I’m a fan of this song and would like to have it on the opening page of our website http://www.canceranswer.ca Please let me know if this is possible….. Thanks.

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Comment by Robert Cymbalski on November 10th, 2012

So happy that the sheet music is free ^_^

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